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Chapter Ten: THE SOCIETY OF JESUITS
In the dimly lit caverns of secret societies, no institution seems more out of 
place than the Society of Jesus—or more popularly known, the Jesuits. With a 
global population of some 18,000 adherents, the Jesuit Order are one of the most 
visible and well-known defenders of the Roman-Catholic faith in the world 
today. Reknown for their educational institutions (Jesuit schools have
consistently ranked among the top tier of U.S. colleges and universities) and the
stringency of their seminaries, the Jesuits seem more like a throwback to the
theological standards of the 18th and 19th centuries than a monolithic beast with
its eye on the goal of global domination—particularly in the face of what both
theologians and non-religious commenters have noted to be an increasingly
secularized world.
Yet while the Jesuit Society may not be the sole religious society alone in 
maintaining some damning secrets, secrecy is at the core of Jesuit history. Like 
the larger Catholic faith, Jesuits have been plagued by recent sex scandals 
occurring both in the U.S. and abroad. In 2011, the regional province of the 
Society of Jesus in the Pacific Northwest was ordered to pay a fine totaling $166
million to some 450 survivors—many of them Native American—of sexual
abuse as children from Jesuit priests over a total of some fifty years. While the
recently elected Pope Francis (already dubbed “the Pope of the people)—
himself, noted as the first Jesuit pope—has vowed to mercilessly investigate and
prosecute clergy accused of abuse, his top prosecutor in the Vatican (a Jesuit, as
well) was recently implicated as being one of several Catholic officials
responsible for continuing to allow a Chicago priest with a long history of
similar allegations to remain in ministry.
As damning as these scandals may be (and it needs to be stated that rumors of
sexual abuse within the Catholic church are from a wholly modern occurrence,
but has been alleged for well over a hundred years now), there may be more that
the Jesuits may need to answer for than charges of sexual molestation and rape,
as horrific as they are. As mentioned earlier in Chapter Three, the historical
origins of the Illuminati can be seen largely as a response to the prevailing Jesuit
influence in education, dating as far back as the 18th century. Yet, there is
another more modern, even more sinister confluence arising as a reaction to

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Jesuit influence; Heinrich Himmler’s elite SS force of the Nazi Party, modeled
directly on the military ethos of the Jesuits yet designed to combat the threat of
Catholicism and its various offshoots (which, in 1939, accounted for
approximately 40% of German people.) But beyond this lurks an even more
subterranean duplicity ascribed to the Jesuits; and it is this strand and its
maneuverings into the worlds of secret society and hidden influence that allows
for a final chapter for much of what we have been discussing to date.